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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Yvan VEROUGSTRAETE

Which members voted against their group’s clear line, how often compared with the votes where the group had one, and did they vote with their national party when they did?

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Period Term202420252026Last 6 months
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Votes Final votes293All roll calls2 891
Order Highest rate firstBy name

Showing Yvan VEROUGSTRAETE only. Show every member

Yvan VEROUGSTRAETE’s votes against the line, 55

Every vote in the selection where the member’s position differed from their group’s clear line, newest first.

Position: the member’s vote. Clear line: the position of at least two thirds of Group (at least 10 members voting), the group they sat in on that day.
DateVotePositionClear lineGroup
26 Nov 2025Amendments 64 + 129 (voted as one) to Article 1 Deforestation Regulation: certain obligations of operators and tradersAgainstForRenew
13 Nov 2025Amendment 265 to recital 28 Certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirementsForAgainstRenew
13 Nov 2025Amendment 91 to Article 4 Certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirementsAgainstForRenew
13 Nov 2025Amendment 89 to Article 4 Certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirementsAgainstForRenew
22 Oct 2025Amendment 178 to paragraph 79, after point l General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsForAgainstRenew
22 Oct 2025Amendment 177 to paragraph 79, after point l General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsForAgainstRenew
22 Oct 2025Amendment 54, adding text after paragraph 38 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsForAgainstRenew
22 Oct 2025Amendment 52, adding text after paragraph 26 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsForAgainstRenew
22 Oct 2025Amendment 75, adding text after paragraph 22 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsForAgainstRenew
22 Oct 2025Amendment 72, adding text after paragraph 22 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsForAgainstRenew
22 Oct 2025Amendment 71, adding text after paragraph 22 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsAbstainedAgainstRenew
8 Oct 2025Separate vote on paragraph 29 EU political strategy on Latin AmericaAgainstForRenew
8 Oct 2025Amendment 146 to recital 15 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainForAgainstRenew
8 Oct 2025Amendment 145 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainForAgainstRenew
8 Oct 2025Amendment 139 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainAgainstForRenew
8 Oct 2025Amendment 138 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainAgainstForRenew
8 Oct 2025Separate vote on Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainForAgainstRenew
8 Oct 2025Amendment 137 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainAgainstForRenew
8 Oct 2025Amendment 144 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainForAgainstRenew
8 Oct 2025Amendment 135 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainAgainstForRenew
8 Oct 2025Amendment 133 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainAgainstForRenew
8 Oct 2025Amendment 132 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainAgainstForRenew
8 Oct 2025Separate vote on Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainForAgainstRenew
8 Oct 2025Amendment 131 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainAgainstForRenew
8 Oct 2025Final vote Amending certain CAP regulations as regards the conditionality system, types of intervention in the form of direct payment, types of intervention in certain sectors and rural development and annual performance reports, data and interoperability governance, suspensions of payments annual performance clearance and controls and penaltiesAgainstForRenew
8 Oct 2025Amendment 85 to Annex I Amending certain CAP regulations as regards the conditionality system, types of intervention in the form of direct payment, types of intervention in certain sectors and rural development and annual performance reports, data and interoperability governance, suspensions of payments annual performance clearance and controls and penaltiesForAgainstRenew
8 Oct 2025Amendment 84 to Annex I Amending certain CAP regulations as regards the conditionality system, types of intervention in the form of direct payment, types of intervention in certain sectors and rural development and annual performance reports, data and interoperability governance, suspensions of payments annual performance clearance and controls and penaltiesForAgainstRenew
9 Jul 2025Amendment 4 to paragraph 24 The human cost of Russia’s war against Ukraine and the urgent need to end Russian aggression: the situation of illegally detained civilians and prisoners of war, and the continued bombing of civiliansAbstainedForRenew
9 Jul 2025Amendment 6 to paragraph 76 2023 and 2024 reports on North MacedoniaAbstainedForRenew
9 Jul 2025Amendment 5 to paragraph 68 2023 and 2024 reports on North MacedoniaAbstainedForRenew
9 Jul 2025Amendment 24, adding text after paragraph 6 2023 and 2024 reports on North MacedoniaForAgainstRenew
9 Jul 2025Amendment 24, adding text after paragraph 56 2023 and 2024 reports on AlbaniaAgainstForRenew
8 Jul 2025Amendment 6, adding text after paragraph 34 EU-Greenland and Denmark Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement: Implementing Protocol 2025-2030 (Resolution)AgainstForRenew
8 Jul 2025Amendment 4 to paragraph 32 EU-Greenland and Denmark Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement: Implementing Protocol 2025-2030 (Resolution)AbstainedForRenew
17 Jun 2025Separate vote on paragraph 69 Financing for development – ahead of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development in SevilleAbstainedForRenew
17 Jun 2025Separate vote on paragraph 64 Financing for development – ahead of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development in SevilleAbstainedForRenew
17 Jun 2025Amendment 186 to Article 3, after paragraph 2 Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast)ForAgainstRenew
22 May 2025Amendment 30, adding text after paragraph 2 Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions in 2023AbstainedForRenew
22 May 2025Amendment 16, adding text after paragraph 2 Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions in 2023ForAgainstRenew
7 May 2025Amendment 4 to paragraph 42 — part 2 The European Water Resilience StrategyAgainstForRenew
7 May 2025Amendment 4 to paragraph 42 — part 1 The European Water Resilience StrategyAgainstForRenew
7 May 2025Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 10 The European Water Resilience StrategyAbstainedForRenew
7 May 2025Amendment 7, adding text after paragraph 37 A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing worldForAgainstRenew
7 May 2025Amendment 27, adding text after paragraph 143 Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Commission, executive agencies and European Development FundsAgainstForRenew
2 Apr 2025Amendment 74 to paragraph 10 — part 1 Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2024ForAgainstRenew
2 Apr 2025Amendment 1 to paragraph 76 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024ForAgainstRenew
2 Apr 2025Amendment 64 to paragraph 76 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024ForAgainstRenew
2 Apr 2025Amendment 30 to paragraph 8 — part 2 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024ForAgainstRenew
2 Apr 2025Amendment 30 to paragraph 8 — part 1 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024ForAgainstRenew
2 Apr 2025Amendment 27 to paragraph 4, after indent 6 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024ForAgainstRenew
Show all 55 votes
Position: the member’s vote. Clear line: the position of at least two thirds of Group (at least 10 members voting), the group they sat in on that day.
DateVotePositionClear lineGroup
1 Apr 2025Request for urgent procedure Final vote Amending Directives (EU) 2022/2464 and (EU) 2024/1760 as regards the dates from which Member States are to apply certain corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirementsAbstainedForRenew
12 Mar 2025Paragraph 19 — part 4 White paper on the future of European defenceAgainstForRenew
12 Mar 2025Paragraph 23 — part 2 Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine, after three years of Russia’s war of aggressionAbstainedForRenew
12 Feb 2025Amendment 2, adding text after recital M Genetically modified maize MON 95275ForAgainstRenew
12 Feb 2025Amendment 2, adding text after recital V Genetically modified maize DP910521ForAgainstRenew

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Members with at least one vote where their group had a clear line. Order: by rate, for members with at least 300 clear-line votes (the rest follow by name) — not a ranking.

Against the line: votes against the group’s clear line ÷ clear-line votes (votes where the member’s group at the date had a clear line and the member voted); a count below 50. Of the votes against: opposite (for ↔ against), abstained against the line, other (for or against when the line was to abstain), and with own party — with the majority of their national party’s members in the group (at least two voting).
MemberAgainst the lineClear-line votesOppositeAbstainedOtherWith own party
Yvan VEROUGSTRAETE , Renew · Belgium 2.9 %1 883441100

About these figures

What was counted, what was left out, and how.

  • 2 891 votes considered (all roll-call votes matching the filters; scope).
  • 78 of 371 decisions in the period had no final vote recorded by name (a show of hands or a count without names) and cannot be measured.
  • A vote counts against the group’s line when the group’s clear line — at least two thirds of its votes cast, with at least 10 members voting — was different from the member’s position; a divided group has no line to vote against (method). This is a different rule from group loyalty, which uses the majority line (loyalty).
  • Ordered by rate, only members with at least 300 votes where their group had a clear line are compared; fewer votes make a rate unstable, and below 50 the figure is shown as a count.
  • Each member is counted in the group they belonged to on the day of the vote (group at the date).
  • Roll calls are not a random sample: final votes on laws are recorded by name, most other roll calls because a group asked for it. A group’s line is inferred from its members’ votes; the Parliament publishes no whip.
  • Methods: Voted against the group’s clear line v1, Voted with the group’s majority line v1, Final votes and all roll calls v1, Group at the date of the vote v1.
  • Data as of 29 Sept 2026, 03:29 UTC (data stamp 2b7a29b98b0d, code 6d4005c55bde; what the stamp is).
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data version 2b7a29b98b0d (29 Sept 2026) · methods: group-at-date v1, participation v1, abstention v1, loyalty v1, against-clear v1, cohesion v1, agreement v1, group-agreement v1, winning-side v1, similar-votes v1, scope v1, data-version v1 · methods
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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Yvan VEROUGSTRAETE”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=256879&to=2025-12-31 (retrieved 30 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0); data version 2b7a29b98b0d (29 Sept 2026) · methods: group-at-date v1, participation v1, abstention v1, loyalty v1, against-clear v1, cohesion v1, agreement v1, group-agreement v1, winning-side v1, similar-votes v1, scope v1, data-version v1.
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@misc{epw-analysis-2026-09-30,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Yvan VEROUGSTRAETE}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=256879&to=2025-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=256879&to=2025-12-31},
  urldate = {2026-09-30},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Analysis. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0); data version 2b7a29b98b0d (29 Sept 2026) · methods: group-at-date v1, participation v1, abstention v1, loyalty v1, against-clear v1, cohesion v1, agreement v1, group-agreement v1, winning-side v1, similar-votes v1, scope v1, data-version v1}
}